Xbox 360 With 512 Internal MU Spotted

Just when you think you bought Microsoft's best (and most reliable) console model, the Jasper, they go ahead and make your wallet cry some more.

Confirmation through picture evidence and forum commenters on Xbox-Scene show a new Xbox 360 Jasper model was released with 512 of internal memory, not 256 as seen in the earlier versions. For now, this appears just to be affecting Japanese consoles made sometime around April 2009, though.

For the in-depth technical side of things, let's go to the article:

The motherboard still seems like a Jasper-model, only real change seems to be the NAND. The extra space is all used to give you a larger internal memory unit. The original Arcade Jasper has a 2gbit NAND and gave users an ~214MBytes of usable internal memory as around 16MB is used by Microsoft for kernel/keyvault/dash etc. So we guess the new one should give you ~496Mbytes of usable internal MU.

We contacted Microsoft about this apparent upgrade, but have yet to hear back. We'll update you if we do. Oh, if you happen to stumble upon one of these yourself, please let us know.